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BBC World News, I'm Charles Carol
As people in the American Gulf Coast marked the day that Hurricane Katrina devastated the region one year ago, President Bush has been stressing the need for patience and suggesting the rebuilding process could take up to a decade. Speaking after a memorial service in New Orleans, Mr. Bush renewed a pledge to do whatever it took to help New Orleans recover. Andy Galligan reports.
A year on from the hurricane that claimed the lives of more than 1, 500 people, President Bush told the city of New Orleans that he took full responsibility for what was widely seen as a botch to response to America's largest natural disaster. Again, he promised aid to residents still frustrated by the slow response of federal and local authorities, and went on to say that New Orleans would someday be louder, brasher and better. Throughout the day sombre ceremonies paid respects to those who lost their lives. Here, a wreath was laded each of the city's failed levees. There are still over 200, 000 former residents of New Orleans who've yet to returned. They remain scattered across the US.
The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan who is in Jerusalem on the second leg of his Middle East tour has accused Israel of being responsible for most of the violations of the two-week ceasefire currently in place between its forces and Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Mr. Annan met the Defence Minister Amir Peretz and said Israel should lift its blockade of Lebanese harbours and airports as quickly as possible, so Lebanon could get home with rebuilding. But Miri Eisen, the Israeli prime minister's spokeswoman, said the blockade remained legitimate.
For Israel, the blockade is an essential part of 1701. Because it states clearly that we need to not only disarm Hezbollah, but to make sure that they do not receive any arms that no terrorists or militias receive arms from outside Lebanon.
The biggest music corporation in the world has decided to make its entire collection available for free on the Internet. Vivendi Universal hopes the lost revenue will be recouped by selling advertising space on the New York web-based SpiralFrog website that will offer the downloads. The service will initially be available in the United States and Canada. The move is intended to counter illegal music downloads and to challenge Apple's iTunes which currently dominates the legitimate market.
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American police have arrested the leader of a breakaway Mormon sect for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men. Warren Jeffs is thought to have at least 40 wives and nearly 60 children. With more details, here's John Kay.
Warren Jeffs has been on the run since May, his image appearing alongside terrorists and drug barons on the FBI's most wanted list. Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ's Latter Day Saints, a sect which left the mainstream Mormon Church more than 100 years ago. Jeffs and his followers believe that polygamy or being married to several people at the same time is acceptable. He's suspected of arranging marriages between young girls and older men in the states of Arizona and Utah.
Police in Britain have charged three more suspects in connection with an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners. Mohammed Yasar Gulzar, Mohammed Shamin Udin and Nabeel Hussain have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. They've also been charged with a new offence of preparing an act of terrorism. They'll appear before London magistrates on Wednesday. Eight suspects appeared in court last week charged with the same offences and four more have appeared on lesser charges.
The President of Chad Idriss Deby has said that the state must control 60% of its oil production. The announcement in the capital N'djamena comes 3 days after he ordered 2 oil companies, the American Chevron Texaco and Malaysian Petronas, to stop operating. From N'djamena, Stephanie Hancock sent this report.
Outside his presidential palace, Mr. Deby told crowds of supporters that a revolution has started. He declared Chad must take more control of oil production at what he calls a reasonable rate of 60%. The figure he gave represents the exact share currently held by Petronas and Chevron Texaco who have been ordered to leave the country in a row of unpaid taxes. Crucially, 60% would give the government of Chad a majority share, and therefore control over the consortium, which runs the country's pipeline.
The government in Peru has called for crisis talks between community leaders and officials from Latin America's largest goldmine Yanacocha after it suspended operations amid protests by local farmers. The protestors who've blocked access to the mines say the project is contaminating their water supply. But the spokesman for the US Company that owns it has denied this.
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Words and Expressions: botch - If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it. (INFORMAL)
recoupe - If you recoup a sum of money that you have spent or lost, you get it back.
polygamy - Polygamy is the custom in some societies in which someone can be legally married to more than one person at the same time.
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